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Jonathan Ernst/Reuters

Emma Gonzalez, a student and shooting survivor from the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, cries as she addresses the conclusion of the "March for Our Lives" event demanding gun control after recent school shootings at a rally in Washington, March 24.

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Jose Cabezas/Reuters

Catholic women take part in the Palm Sunday procession in Panchimalco, El Salvador, March 25.

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Robert F. Bukaty/AP

Rumford, Maine firefighters compete in the Masters of the Hose ski race at the Sunday River ski resort March 25, in Newry, Maine. The 28th annual race raises money for the Sunday River Community Fund. The fund supports charitable organizations in neighboring communities.

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Andrea Cornejo/Las Vegas Review-Journal/AP

Students participates in the Las Vegas March for Our Lives event, which started at Symphony Park and ended in Las Vegas City Hall, March 24.

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Gene J. Puskar/AP

Amanda Ostroff, right center, and Claire Ellermeyer, left center, both freshman at Fox Chapel, Pa., high school attends a gathering in Market Square in downtown Pittsburgh at the end of a gun control rally March 24.

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Catalan Mossos d'Esquadra regional police officers clash with pro-independence supporters trying to reach the Spanish government office in Barcelona, Spain, March 25. Grassroots groups both for and against Catalan secession called for protests Sunday in Barcelona after Carles Puigdemont, the fugitive ex-leader of Catalonia and ardent separatist, was arrested Sunday by German police on an international warrant.

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Brendan McDermid/Reuters

People look at a puppy playing in a window display at Saks Fifth Avenue which is promoting pet adoption for the occasion of National Puppy Day in New York on March 23.

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Frank Augstein/AP

A Sotheby's employee adjusts a curtain 'Chale Wote' made of jute sacks and mixed media by Ibrahim Mahama in London on March 23. The curtain, estimated at between $84,000 and $126,000, is part of a Modern and Contemporary African Art Sale at the auction house Sotheby's.

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Azad Lashkari/Reuters

Kurdish youth celebrate Color Day in Erbil, Iraq on March 23.

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Kevin Coombs/Reuters

A window cleaner works in the financial district of Canary Wharf in London on March 23.

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Jean-Paul Pelissier/Reuters

A military helicopter flies over the village of Trebes after a hostage situation in a supermarket in France on March 23.

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Oded Balilty/AP

Surfers paddle on boards in the Mediterranean Sea as hot weather reaches the area in Tel Aviv on March 23.

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Runners pass by a section of Israel's separation barrier while participating in the Palestine Marathon in the West Bank city of Bethlehem on March 23.

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Jean-Christophe Bott/Keystone/AP

People climb to the Great St. Bernard Pass with Saint Bernard dogs from the Fondation Barry in the Swiss Alps, near Bourg-Saint-Pierre, Switzerland, on March 23.

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Valentyn Ogirenko/Reuters

Ukrainian lawmaker Nadiya Savchenko, who was detained on charges of planning a military-style coup, attends a court hearing in Kiev, Ukraine on March 23.

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Aijaz Rahi/AP

An Indian woman fills plastic vessels with water from a shared tap in an impoverished neighborhood on World Water Day in Bangalore, India on March 22. Bangalore is one among 10 cities in the world that might be on the verge of an imminent water crisis like the one in South Africa's drought-hit city of Cape Town, the environmental magazine Down to Earth claimed earlier this week.

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Simon Watts/Dept of Internal Affairs/AP

Former President Barack Obama walks with New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern during an official welcome ceremony at Government House in Auckland, New Zealand, on March 22. Obama is in New Zealand as part of a weeklong tour of Singapore, New Zealand, Australia, and Japan.

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Francois Mori/AP

A French railway worker holds a poster among flares during a demonstration on March 22 in Paris. Trains, planes, schools, and other public services were widely disrupted as unions set up dozens of street protests across the country.

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Seth Wenig/AP

Ruth Wertentheil (l.) shovels the sidewalk in front of her house while her children follow her in Englewood, N.J., on March 22. The fourth major storm to hit the state in three weeks dropped about a foot of snow in some parts before leaving the region.

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Efrem Lukatsky/AP

Lawmaker Nadiya Savchenko smiles during a parliament session as she listens to lawmakers' questions in Kiev, Ukraine, on March 22. The Ukrainian parliament canceled Savchenko's lawmaker immunity and approved her detention after the country's top prosecutor accused Savhcheno of an attempt to prepare terrorist attacks against the country's leaders.

A young child looks at flood waters in front of his house in Shkodra, Albania, on March 22.

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K.M. Chaudary/AP

A Pakistani boy fetches clean water on World Water Day outside Lahore, Pakistan, on March 22. Due to the alarming increase in population and rapid industrialization, drinking water quality is deteriorating day by day in Pakistan.

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Ola Lanre/Reuters

Some of the 110 schoolgirls kidnapped last month in the town of Dapchi, Nigeria, by militants presumed to be from Boko Haram wept March 21 after their release.

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Mohammad Ismail/Reuters

Men hold balloons for sale during Afghan spring and new year celebrations in Kabul, Afghanistan on March 21.

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Alessandro Bianchi/Reuters

Skaters perform during the opening ceremony of the World Figure Skating Championships in Milan, Italy on March 21.

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David Mercado/Reuters

Bolivians take to the streets with the country's maritime flag in La Paz, Bolivia, on March 20 in a show of support for their continued demand for access to the ocean.

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Loren Elliott/Reuters

Local resident and bystander Sam Truitt holds his son Royce while speaking to the media near the scene of an incident that law enforcement personnel said involved an incendiary device in the 9800 block of Brodie Lane in Austin, Tex., on March 20.

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A dog looks over a railing on a house covered in ice by the coast at Faxe Bay, south of Copenhagen, Denmark, on March 19.

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Navesh Chitrakar/Reuters

Sophia, a robot with Saudi Arabian citizenship, interacts during the innovation fair in Kathmandu, Nepal, on March 21.

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Jayanta Dey/Reuters

Tina Chakma, a six-month-old girl, plays in an improvised hammock inside her parents' house on the outskirts of Agartala, India, on March 20.

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Susana Vera/Reuters

People take part in a protest by doctors to demand better salaries and working conditions in Madrid on March 21.

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Rogelio V. Solis/AP

Mississippi State senior players Morgan William (2), Blair Schaefer (1), Victoria Vivians (35), and Roshunda Johnson (11) wave to their fans for the final time on their home court following a 71-56 win over Oklahoma State in the round-two game of the NCAA women's college basketball tournament in Starkville, Miss., on March 19.

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Baz Ratner/Reuters

A warden watches over Najin and her daughter, Patu, the last two northern white rhino females, in their enclosure at the Ol Pejeta Conservancy in Laikipia National Park, Kenya, on March 20. The world’s last known male white rhino, named Sudan, died at the reserve. Scientists still hope to use harvested cells to impregnate white rhino surrogates. 'By conservative estimates, the technology to pull this off is still roughly ten years from being perfected,' reported National Geographic.

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Shamil Zhumatov/Reuters

The Soyuz MS-08 spacecraft for the next International Space Station (ISS) crew, consisting of astronauts Drew Feustel and Ricky Arnold of the US and crewmate Oleg Artemyev of Russia, is transported from an assembly hangar to the launchpad at the Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan, on March 19.

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Ari Jalal/Reuters

Iraqi Kurdish people carry fire torches up a mountain as they celebrate Newroz Day, a festival marking their spring and new year, in the town of Akra, Iraq, on March 20.

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Fabrizio Bensch/Reuters

German Chancellor Angela Merkel waits at the chancellery in Berlin on March 20.

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Issei Kato/Reuters

A model presents a creation of Yukihero Pro-Wrestling by designer Yukihiro Teshima from his Autumn/Winter 2018 collection during Fashion Week Tokyo on March 20.

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Bassam Khabieh/Reuters

People are seen through shattered glass in the besieged town of Douma, Eastern Ghouta, in Damascus, Syria, on March 19.

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Andres Martinez Casares/Reuters

Youths skate down a street in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, on March 18.

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Themba Hadebe/AP

Two lion cubs play after being released into a large enclosure at Johannesburg Zoo in South Africa on March 19.

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Hannah Mckay/Reuters

The statues on Bush House, the former headquarters of the BBC, are dressed in glasses, scarves, and T-shirts by artist Léo Caillard as part of his The Classical Now show in London on March 19.

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Reuters

Children dressed in traditional costumes take part in a folk performance during a festival on the second day of the second month of the lunar calendar to mark the beginning of spring ploughing in Lanzhou, Gansu province, China, on March 18.